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Just heard about Machon Lev ( JCT Yerushalayim) that combines Torah learning with secular vocational degrees for young men following on from yeshiva. Any advice or experience to share?
All I know about it is that it’s a Belzer mossad.
Forgive me for disagreeing, Reb Itche, but I know JCT very well.
It may be approved by the Belzer, and it may have many Belzer participants, but it is an independent organization, with its own charitable status in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, as well, of course, as in Israel.
It has a beautiful and vibrant Beis Medrash that is at the center of the Givat Mordechai campus. The Rosh Yeshiva is Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, s-i-l of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach z’l.
It is an incredible place. THe chareidi program is growing by leaps and bounds, and graduating engineers, accountants, and technicians. They also have a mechina program for standout science students who are frum who can get their degree and study while deferring their army service until after they finish, and then go into elite engineering units. They have a program tailored for the Ethiopian community, which brings the academic standard of the participants to the highest levels and integrates them into the yeshiva study side if they were not already there.
The nursing school for women is considered one of the best and most technologically advanced in the country, and it has only been open since 2007.
Let me know if you have other questions. I may be able to answer them but if not I can certainly point you in the right direction.
Is it for Americans? Are you considering it? There are plenty of opportunities here for vocational training, including haskalla school.
yichusdik: My mistake then.
No problem. It’s really an impressive place, and a model, I think, for how the Dati Leumi and chareidi communities can get along well and cooperate.
Popa, they do have a one year post high school program (1/2 time learning, 1/2 sciences) for americans/canadians that is in English, but the undergrad programs are taught almost completely in Ivrit.
I’m in my last year (4th year) here at JCT – Machon Lev studying Electro-Optics Engineering. There is an american program which provides some classes in english. Over the years it’s been called a few different names (E.S.P., JCT International School, T.M.M.E).
What degree are you interested in?
You should know that for the past few years, a business degree has been provided completely in english. Rumor has it that they will soon be providing computer science in english too.
tahini: something that many don’t know is that there is a high school on campus too. it is a very hard program to get into but students who are accepted do 5 years of high school and finish with a high school diploma and a Bachelors in Computer Science. the same degree someone would get going through the normal comp sci track post high school. so it provides a huge advantage, finishing high school at the age of 19 and also having a college degree.
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